Category:George E. Goodfellow

George E. Goodfellow 

American physician
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Date of birth	23 December 1855 Downieville
Date of death	7 December 1910 Los Angeles
Place of burial	Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery
Country of citizenship	United States of America
Educated at	United States Naval Academy
Occupation	physician surgeon
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George E. Goodfellow matriculated at the USNA in 1872 but was expelled in that year. An excellent scholar, and physically fit, he became the brigade boxing champion. He was very popular, but this popularity led to his expulsion. Like many other Americans, he believed in the inferiority of the African races and the perceived necessity to keep them socially immobile by direct action. Collaborating with student behavior along those lines at the Academy, he administered a severe and unprovoked beating to the first African American midshipman, James H. Conyers, for which act he was dismissed from the Academy. There is no indication that he ever recanted his view or felt remorse. His family attempted to bypass the chain of command by appealing to Julia Grant, wife of the President, a racist. Her family had been plantation owners in Missouri. She worshipped Grant, however, who had emancipated his one slave in New York, and had had a full-blooded native American on his general staff. The apparently "colored" general informed General Lee at the latter's surrender, "we are all Americans here, sir." Grant was not inclined to overrule the Academy. Giving up hope of reversal, Goodfellow went to medical school and had a colorful if often violent career as a trauma surgeon in the old west, including 11 years in Tombstone. His speciality was bullet wounds. He treated all the infamous gunfighters and lawmen.